Heinz Starke

My geographical remit is wide-reaching - I work with clients in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy - but the important thing about working with clients in operational treasury is proximity.

Typically my clients are going through a dramatic change in ownership and requirements. To help them through these changes, they need a very close working relationship.

I like to be with clients, to see them, listen to them and discuss things face to face. My job is to support them until the organization can cope with the new situation or new treasury resources are in place.

Working together closely means clients acquire the expertise to run their own treasury operation as speedily as possible.

It’s a relationship built on trust. I like to think that clients’ trust in me is rooted in the experience I bring to the situation: having been CFO for a company acquired by a private equity investor; a financial board director for Krone AG; plus thirty years in a variety of financial roles worldwide for chemical giant E.I. Du Pont de Nemours.